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- In the SoftLayer portal, go to the Support tab.
- Click on Reboot

- Choose the server that you wish to reboot, click on Reboot

- Choose how you would like to reboot the server:

                - Default (attempt via ipmi and then power strip)

                - IPMI

                - Power Strip

- Click reboot…or

- This page also offers the ability to boot into the Rescue Kernel

- This is very helpful when experiencing an issue in which the server cannot boot to the OS because of a configuration issue. After booting to the Rescue Kernel, you can mount the drive/drives of your server, and then fix the configuration issue. Once the issue has been fixed, just reboot the server from the command line, and the server will reboot into the default kernel for your server.

- Once you have issued the reboot, you will see an estimated time of completion.